I learned recently that the water pressure you experience in a pool is actually quite good for your circulatory system. You don't even have to swim to get the benefits. Just sit under the water, up to your neck. Let the pressure do the work for you :).
I heard about it from a swim teacher I met where I swim. So I researched and had found this article (which actually also discusses some other fabulous benefits, too :). https://www.swimex.com/resources/hydrostatic-pressure-hydrotherapy-benefits/ That explained why my singing voice got better since I started swimming, too! :)
133 meters. 436 feet. Over 4 football fields. That’s the world record for free diving. I saw a show about this, and it blew my mind. How in the ham sandwich any human body could withstand that pressure… I cannot comprehend. When I would try to dive to the bottom of an 8 foot pool, I could never make it all the way down because my ears hurt too much! 😵💫
🤣. My math is horrible! Yes, it’s still amazing. They have to use a rope to guide them down and back up. And at one point, it becomes pitch black. And it’s easier to sink but harder to come back up! Scares me to think about it!
Imagination can take us millions of light years in a second while still being subject to the speed of the electrical impulses in our brain. Also, through the aid of a telescope we can peer (supposedly) into the past billions of years while sitting comfortably in front of a high resolution display monitor.
Great observation about the speed of thought. I've long thought that one simple way to create a vastly more powerful intellect would be to create a roughly identical brain that operated at the speed of light and not at the speed of chemicals moving around. We'd immediately be a million times "smarter", although we'd have no idea how to use it at first.
Ok i feel like I’m letting you down here. Neat is not good enough. On family road trips I would sit in the very back of the station wagon looking backwards reading books on astronomy and pulsars and black holes. I really felt like I found my thing in astrophysics. I can still visualize those books. It wasn’t until later that college would crush my dreams. But I read those books and really tried to understand it. My parents weren’t much help. Your little writeup would’ve really helped me back then!
Wish I had been writing about this stuff back then! Actually, believe it or not, I was, but it would not have been helpful. As a child, I wrote about multiple dimensions and generally weird stuff I didn't grasp at all.
The Key and Peele thing really was cool, though! I don't think I knew that.
All I know about this is that at around 10,000 feet of depth in the ocean lives a dude called Dumbo Octopus who looks adorable, and that's my entire contribution today.
Loved the progression of this. :)
I learned recently that the water pressure you experience in a pool is actually quite good for your circulatory system. You don't even have to swim to get the benefits. Just sit under the water, up to your neck. Let the pressure do the work for you :).
Neat! How does the benefit work? Maybe there's an interesting deep "dive" there, pun intended.
I heard about it from a swim teacher I met where I swim. So I researched and had found this article (which actually also discusses some other fabulous benefits, too :). https://www.swimex.com/resources/hydrostatic-pressure-hydrotherapy-benefits/ That explained why my singing voice got better since I started swimming, too! :)
That's a lot more intuitive than I would have guessed. It's pretty much like practice for your body! Neat.
Right? :)
133 meters. 436 feet. Over 4 football fields. That’s the world record for free diving. I saw a show about this, and it blew my mind. How in the ham sandwich any human body could withstand that pressure… I cannot comprehend. When I would try to dive to the bottom of an 8 foot pool, I could never make it all the way down because my ears hurt too much! 😵💫
Vince, I think that's a little over one football field, but that's still mind-melting to imagine.
There are daredevils out there who are just wired really differently than you or me; I'm convinced of this.
🤣. My math is horrible! Yes, it’s still amazing. They have to use a rope to guide them down and back up. And at one point, it becomes pitch black. And it’s easier to sink but harder to come back up! Scares me to think about it!
There is one magical word that makes me feel way better when I think about stuff like this: "Nope!"
Imagination can take us millions of light years in a second while still being subject to the speed of the electrical impulses in our brain. Also, through the aid of a telescope we can peer (supposedly) into the past billions of years while sitting comfortably in front of a high resolution display monitor.
Great observation about the speed of thought. I've long thought that one simple way to create a vastly more powerful intellect would be to create a roughly identical brain that operated at the speed of light and not at the speed of chemicals moving around. We'd immediately be a million times "smarter", although we'd have no idea how to use it at first.
Yes, the speed of thought…
Ha heard it but I hadn’t see it. This is my fave weird Al and TIL that’s key & peele! https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?si=p2OQy2YkZXDOl57S
Hey, now I know that too! Neat.
Ok i feel like I’m letting you down here. Neat is not good enough. On family road trips I would sit in the very back of the station wagon looking backwards reading books on astronomy and pulsars and black holes. I really felt like I found my thing in astrophysics. I can still visualize those books. It wasn’t until later that college would crush my dreams. But I read those books and really tried to understand it. My parents weren’t much help. Your little writeup would’ve really helped me back then!
Wish I had been writing about this stuff back then! Actually, believe it or not, I was, but it would not have been helpful. As a child, I wrote about multiple dimensions and generally weird stuff I didn't grasp at all.
The Key and Peele thing really was cool, though! I don't think I knew that.
Oooh! I just realized I have not seen all of Peele’s movies. Might have to watch Candyman tonite 🫣 you seen it?
Yes! It was good, but nowhere near as good as "Get Out." I enjoyed both "Nope" and "Us" too, but "Get Out" is something special.
Yeah, you’re right Get Out was amazing and I think that was his first movie
I got this https://youtu.be/HglA72ogPCE?si=J0T1X1DKPlyNLMuG
Naturally. In the vein of Queen, but with a nerdy spin, are you familiar with Weird Al's early hit, "Another One Rides the Bus"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZkouut-9RQ
All I know about this is that at around 10,000 feet of depth in the ocean lives a dude called Dumbo Octopus who looks adorable, and that's my entire contribution today.
They're amazing!